{"id":241991,"date":"2021-05-04T01:27:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T22:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/expelling-asian-americans-from-top-schools-proves-nyc-education-is-off-the-rails\/"},"modified":"2021-05-04T01:27:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T22:27:41","slug":"expelling-asian-americans-from-top-schools-proves-nyc-education-is-off-the-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/expelling-asian-americans-from-top-schools-proves-nyc-education-is-off-the-rails\/","title":{"rendered":"#Expelling Asian Americans from top schools proves NYC education is off the rails"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Expelling Asian Americans from top schools proves NYC education is off the rails<\/strong>”
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Anti-Asian violence in New York right now is more than random street-corner sucker punches and terrifying subway shoves. It\u2019s also the deliberate disassembly of meritocratic public education under the guise of ethnic equity \u2014 a dagger to the heart of the fastest-growing and arguably most dynamic immigrant group in the city.<\/p>\n

Not to diminish the thuggery, the most serious threat to Asian American New Yorkers is the Department of Education\u2019s ill-disguised effort to eliminate merit test-based admission to the city\u2019s eight highly selective high schools. The process is dominated by Asian kids to the virtual exclusion of black and Hispanic students.<\/p>\n

The new numbers came out last week, and they are beyond harsh: Asians won 54 percent of this year\u2019s freshman class seats; whites, 28 percent; Hispanics, 5 percent, and African Americans, 4 percent.<\/p>\n

Whereupon Schools Chancellor Meisha Ross Porter demanded an end to test-based admissions \u2014 because \u201cIt\u2019s far past time for our students to be fairly represented.\u201d<\/p>\n

Weird. By her own words, Porter doesn\u2019t consider Asian kids \u2014 app<\/a>arently all 145,000 of them \u2014 to be among \u201cour students.\u201d And to her, \u201cfair representation\u201d means quotas. How else to interpret what she said?<\/p>\n

She\u2019s no trailblazer here, of course. New York, city and state, has been chipping away at school performance standards for a generation. Lately, in the Bill de Blasio\/Andrew Cuomo\/Carl Heastie era, they have been in free fall.<\/p>\n

But only rarely is the official agenda so clearly \u2014 if perhaps inadvertently \u2014 stated: Explicitly expelling Asian kids from the \u201cour students\u201d mix is both breathtaking and a fair measure of how far off the rails public education policy is in New York these days.<\/p>\n

If the pandemic has produced anything positive, it is now beyond argument that teachers as an organized force have no interest in actually teaching; hell, they\u2019re no longer even going through the motions.<\/p>\n

Neither is Porter, obviously, nor de Blasio, Cuomo, the state and city education departments, the City Council, the Legislature and the state Board of Regents \u2014 the last once being America\u2019s most demanding monitor of quality public schools.<\/p>\n

The rationale was simple: A solid basic education was intrinsically a good thing, but transforming the nation\u2019s immigrant legions into an educated workforce would promote prosperity, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That worked for decades \u2014 but over time, the assumption frayed. Now the game<\/a> is Porter\u2019s quota culture \u2014 and those running it admit to no distinction between pretending to educate children and actually doing so.<\/p>\n

And they hope nobody notices; so far, nobody has.<\/p>\n

Yet those high school admissions numbers are hard to miss \u2014 and it\u2019s a safe bet that the city\u2019s Asian Americans are staring at them intently.<\/p>\n

Certainly the city itself is changing. Where things will stand when the pandemic shakes out is anybody\u2019s guess. Plus those 2020 Census Bureau numbers released last month bear close study.<\/p>\n

But no one will dispute that immigration once again is radically transforming the five boroughs. To the point, Brooklyn\u2019s Sunset Park and Flushing\/Elmhurst in Queens have been transformed by Chinese newcomers \u2014 most poor but tirelessly striving and virtually all dedicated to advancement through high-quality, merit-driven education.<\/p>\n

Hard work and familial support make for exemplary test scores \u2014 so it is no accident that immigrant children make up a significant percentage of those Porter and her quota cabal would turn away from the city\u2019s specialized high schools.<\/p>\n

And while neighborhoods like Park Slope and the Upper West Side get most of the attention when the elimination of programs for talented kids is being discussed, don\u2019t think for a minute that extra effort for high-performing outer-borough Asian children isn\u2019t on the target list too.<\/p>\n

Still, Park Slope and Upper West Side residents often have options not available to impoverished, often illegal immigrants from, say, mainland China\u2019s Fujian Province. The question is how hard they\u2019ll push back against Porter\u2019s blatant discrimination.<\/p>\n

It wouldn\u2019t be the first time that a demand for quality public schools created social<\/a> and political friction in the city \u2014 that is to say, generated the sometimes-disruptive energy necessary for positive change.<\/p>\n

Porter would do better to concentrate on the reasons underlying black under-performance \u2014 they are many, varied and often heartbreaking \u2014 rather than trying to mask those problems with quotas.<\/p>\n

They won\u2019t help black kids learn, after all, and isn\u2019t that supposed to be the point?<\/p>\n

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